Last Night�'s Bad Choices Now Have a Calorie Count

Posted 10:21am Sunday 5th March 2017

A number of major players in the New Zealand beer industry have made the voluntary step to start featuring nutritional information labels on their beverages. Both Lion Nathan and DB Breweries, the two largest producers in the country, have got on board, and from this week onwards the labels will be Read more...

Bottle Smashing Down, Number of People Being Dicks Remains the Same

Posted 11:09am Sunday 26th February 2017

Egg throwing, couch burning and bottle smashing continue to be problematic at Otago despite progress, according to the 2016 Vice-Chancellors Report on Discipline. Last year a total of 483 students were sent to the proctor’s office, with 21 being referred on to the vice-chancellor. The number Read more...

Legal Aid Office closures put “extra strain on the system”

Posted 10:16am Saturday 24th September 2016

The Ministry of Justice has confirmed that 6 of the 8 legal aid offices in New Zealand will close early next year, including the Christchurch branch, the only office left in the South Island. The process will be centralised in Auckland and Takapuna, something widely criticised by many in the legal Read more...

Polling booth coming to campus

Posted 10:04am Saturday 24th September 2016

After months of discussion and negotiation, the DCC has relented and will provide a special voting booth on campus this Thursday for local body elections. After Critic reported on the DCC imposing overly strict conditions surrounding the provision of a booth, OUSA has re-opened talks and found DCC Read more...

More government funding for random drunk hook-ups

Posted 10:42am Saturday 17th September 2016

Parliament is considering the repeal of a controversial measure which penalises mothers applying for child support who do not know the identity of the father.  Under the Social Securities Act, sole parents who do not name the father when applying to WINZ are docked $22 a week from their Read more...

‘Your Voice’ posters torn down

Posted 10:37am Saturday 17th September 2016

The ‘Your Voice’ ticket, led by Presidential candidate Lark Hare in the OUSA election, has had 28 of their campaign posters around campus torn down, largely those in the Castle Lecture Theatres, according to Bryn Jenkins, who is the Your Voice candidate for Education Officer. He says it Read more...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel defends immigration policy

Posted 10:40am Saturday 10th September 2016

Angela Merkel has laid down a strong defence of her immigration policy after witnessing the dramatic rise of right-wing parties in Germany’s regional election in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The country’s most popular right-wing party, Alternative für Deutschland, Read more...

John Key calls Australian PM his “BFF Forever”

Posted 10:32am Saturday 10th September 2016

Drama broke out on the international relations front after Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull tweeted a picture of himself with newly appointed UK leader Theresa May, with the caption “There couldn’t be two countries with closer bonds than Australia and Britain”. A heartbroken John Read more...

How Newshub started a national body shaming campaign against two university students for daring to be skinny

Posted 10:27am Saturday 10th September 2016

Last week, Farmers posted a photo on their Facebook page to promote dresses from the new Andrea Moore collection. The models were twins and 21 year old students at Auckland University students. Unfortunately, as internet commentators are want to do, the post had a bunch of negative comments Read more...

OUSA Execrable | Issue 22

Posted 10:14am Saturday 10th September 2016

The Executive met Monday in a highly disorganised and easily distracted fashion to consider a proposal by local artist Guy Howard-Smith to paint a large anti-pollution mural on the side of the Birdwatchers flat, 74 Albany Street. Howard-Smith has had a hand in producing a number of large-scale Read more...